Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Programming is like sex: one mistake and you have to support it for the rest of your life.
Michael Sinz
UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity.
Dennis Ritchie
Talk is cheap, show me the code!
Linus Torvalds
Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute.
From SICP
Users are a terrible thing. Systems would be infinitely more stable without them.
Michael T. Nygard.
It's hard enough to find an error in your code when you're looking for it; it's even harder when you've assumed your code is error-free.
Steve McConnell
In software, the most beautiful code, the most beautiful functions, and the most beautiful programs are sometimes not there at all.
Jon Bentley
It's difficult to extract sense from strings, but they're the only communication coin we can count on.
Alan J. Perlis
If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
Alan J. Perlis
Dealing with failure is easy: Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle: You've solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.
Alan J. Perlis